It's Summer!

Today was the first day of summer and really it was one of the first nice days we have had all year. The boys have been having the time of their lives playing with their cousins and today didn't disappoint when they pulled out the kid pools and squirt guns.

Jaden taking on Grandpa Hatfield and Uncle Derek.

Father's Day was really nice, hopefully Scott thought so too! I have never seen two boys that love their dad as much as mine do. We live for the weekends when we get to see him all day. In case you are wondering that is a slice of banana bread Logan is holding on his nose. I tried to take several pictures, but he did it in all of them. He is a silly kid.

We signed Jaden up for golf classes this summer. He has only gone to one class so far and loved every minute of it. He told me beforehand that he was already really good at golf, but now maybe he will get even better....I think he will! I was actually really surprised at how well it was organized. I wasn't sure what they were going to do with all those kids for nearly two hours, but it went by very quickly. It's nice for him to have something to look forward to each week now that preschool is over.

Logan randomly got some 24 hour stomach flu. I am SO happy that it didn't spread on to anyone else. I cannot imagine kneeling over a toilet at this point in my pregnancy.

I have less than two weeks left until baby #3 is suppose to arrive. I am not counting on him coming early at all so if he does that will be a pleasant surprise. Do you think I could get any bigger?!

The great outdoors

I have the best husband out there. Scott took the boys camping this weekend and left me alone to work on getting things ready for the new baby. It was really nice to have that quiet now since I know as soon as the baby comes in a few weeks alone time will be non-existent. The boys met up with Scott's brother Mark and his family who drove over from Portland but they didn't seem to end up in any of the pictures. My boys loved seeing them however and absolutely adore their little cousin KJ.

Being silly in the tent (they wore these fishing hats the entire trip)

The cutest fishermen out there!

These next few pictures are from the Father/Son campout Scott took the boys on a few weeks ago. I really have been spoiled this month.

Yard Project

Last year we spent the spring fixing up in the inside of our house and so this year it was time to fix our backyard. When we bought the house there were leaves covering the backyard and we didn't think much about it. The day we got the keys to the house we went straight over and started raking up the leaves so that the grass could start to grow. Turns out that the backyard was covered in roots and very little grass actually grew back there....bummer. Our poor kids have spent the last year tripping over roots and unable to run and truly enjoy their yard.

I failed to take many pictures of the process, mostly because there were always shady looking guys working back there when I actually thought about taking a picture. We were originally planning on doing everything ourselves, but Scott just didn't have enough time and I am as big as whale and basically no help at all. We found some really cheap labor and had those guys put in a new sprinkler system, bring in a ton of top soil to raise the level of the yard and finally lay down some sod. Since we got the labor so cheap, the guys weren't exactly professionals and it took them about 3 weeks to complete the job instead of the original 1-2 weeks they quoted us. It was a frustrating process, but in the end I am still glad that we had someone else doing all the hard labor.

We aren't done yet, we are still planning to plant a few bushes and bring in some bark around the trees. Hopefully the sod takes well and will continue to grow. I'm a little nervous because we had such a shady backyard, but anything will be better than what we had!